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-- SPANISH NAVY SHIPS --

Alicante (Hospital Ship, 1898)

Alicante, a 4031-ton hospital ship, was built at
Dumbarton, Scotland, in 1889 as the merchant ship Pegu.
Purchased by a Spanish firm in 1896, she was renamed Alicante.
During the Spanish-American War, she was used as a hospital ship.
Returned to commercial service after 1898 and reduced to a coal
hulk in 1931, she was bombed and sunk at Barcelona in 1939. Her
remains were raised and broken up the following year.